08 August 2025

Fonts

I need to start indexing typefaces I like, if only so I can find them again. This is just a start.

Indices

Type foundry directory
Extensive!
Linotype Pilgrim’s list
Well-curated
Blambot
A foundry making faces for stuff like comics with other applications
Fonts for wireframing
A short index of

Faces

Big free families

Deja Vu
A huge family
Noto
Created by the Google Fonts team
IBM Plex
Has just a hint of the Future Of The Past

Workhorses

Verdana
The sans serif which is always there for you
Georgia
The serif’d face for use on screens which is always there for you
Monaspace
A versatile & nifty family of monospaced fonts
Input
A sophisticated family of fonts for coding
Futura
The perennial face for people who have graduated from Helvetica
Volkhorn
A “bread-and-butter” serif’d face

For sketches

I use these in UX design wireframes to underline that they are sketchy

Squiggles instead of text

Redacted (Google Fonts)
Turns text into squiggles or blocks suggestive of words; includes a range of weights
Fillr
Turns text into rougher squiggles suggestive of words
Flow Rounded
Turns text into plain strokes
BLOKK
Turns text into chunky blocks

Handwriting-ish faces suggesting sketchiness

Pulp Fiction
A serif’d face for comics which has both bold and italics for when one needs to show examples of real copy while still hinting at sketchiness
Winky Sans
A slightly whimsical face which implies a neat but unfinished sketch
Comic Neue
A less janky descendent of Comic Sans, for that “do not take this seriously” feeling

Interesting

Doves Type
A facsimile of an elegant early 20th century face. Evidently they fished the original typeset out of the Thames.
Bureausign
A nifty wayfinding font influenced by science fiction movies.
Piazzolla
A serif face with a lot of weights and a distinctive chunky character
Atkinson hyperlegible next
A sans serif face designed for accessibility
Bastaleur
A fancy pseudo-arcane face I like to use in game materials.
Gentium
A serif’d face with just a bit of character
Sylexiad
An eccentric face designed to support dyslexics
Skribblugh
A deliberately janky-unto-scary face which is surprisingly readable which I used for character sheets for a TTRPG about insomniacs
Noteworthy
A very legible face which resembles handrwriting
Science Gothic
A blocky face evocative of science fiction movies
Analog Digits
A family of numerals that look like segmented displays and nixie tubes

Font tools for games

Dicier
Useful icons
Prompt font
Useful icons
Hexpaper pro
An easy way to make hex grids
Raygun Rockets
An easy way to draw rayguns & rockets
Aetherships
An easy way to draw zepplins and steampunk spaceships
Fate Core
A few key glyphs for the TTRPG

Mac tools

PopChar
A tool for handling fonts’ special characters
Typeface
A tool for surveying & organizing one’s fonts; included with a SetApp subscription, which I recommend to all Mac users

About type

Severance’s evil type design
An article about the show’s production design with an interesting word about how no, that is not Helvetica.
Type.Method
A game-like tool for exercising kerning skill
Keming Revisited
A fun collection of commentaries & resources about the joke term “keming” to refer to bad kerning.

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